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F1 News & Discussions => Pit Pass => Topic started by: Dare on June 22, 2018, 11:34:43 PM

Title: Driving a F1 car
Post by: Dare on June 22, 2018, 11:34:43 PM
Lucky devil

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/44569761
Title: Re: Driving a F1 car
Post by: John S on June 23, 2018, 09:59:36 AM
More like 'Driving Miss Daisy' than a real F1 experience, Dare.
But your right - Lucky Devil!

I reckon Renault put the car in safe mode from the speed and behaviour of the car, didn't see hands using paddle shift.
It's not so easy to handle an F1 car in normal engine modes, ask 'Top Gear's' Richard Hammond, even after training he kept stalling the Renault F1 car he was let loose in for day or two at a race track.

 
Title: Re: Driving a F1 car
Post by: Alianora La Canta on June 26, 2018, 07:14:05 AM
I'm fairly sure Renault always puts their car in "safe mode" whenever anyone not on their driving payroll or auditioning to join it uses one of their cars. It would be an insurance issue if anyone got it in and injured themselves in a mode they had not previously indicated was likely to be within their abilities (via previous F1 car experience).
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